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17-102/III - A New Inequality Measure that is Sensitive to Extreme Values and Asymmetries


  • Authors
    Michael McAler, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; Hang K. Ryu, Chung Ang University, Seoul, Korea; Daniel J. Slottje, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA
  • Publication date
    November 3, 2017
  • Keywords
    Inequality Index, Extreme value distributions, Maximum entropy method, Orthonormal basis, Legendre polynomials
  • JEL
    D31, D63